so we talked earlier about a philosophical differences of goff fern-- governing.is bring up this is one of of the larger pet peeve force me to the party to which you currently belong. >> currently? >> jon: i think you're going to have to start your own because i don't think republicans will be happy because you've been too nice to obama too. so new jersey is in trouble. and it needs the federal government to step in and you go to them and you say i need this amount of money. and there's some horse trading. but for the most part they're going to deliver at least 30 billion dollars to the state of new jersey, wouldn't you say? or maybe even a little more. >> i'm hopeful, hopeful. >> jon: at the same time they want to set up exchanges for health insurance. >> right. >> and you don't want to do that. >> right. >> i don't want to do it right now. >> jon: when they're doing it. >> well, no, no, no. because here's the issue, jon. and why i vetoed it. i'm asking a bunch of questions about how much it will cost and everything else. and they won't answer my questions, so i

he is an astute philosopher. he is a native of illinois, a student of baseball, a lifelong cubs fan, and as such, he is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. [laughter] despite their rudeness of the invitation, he is my friend. george well. -- george will. [applause] >> jack's invitation is perfectly acceptable. my dear friend william f. buckley once called up his friend charleton heston, the actor, and said chuck, do you believe in free speech? he said, of course. he said good, you are about to give one. it is a delight to be back here. it is a delight to be back on campus. long ago and far away, i was a college professor. in 1976, two of my friends ran for the senate against each other in new york state. the night they were both nominated, jim buckley got up and said, i look forward to running against professor moynihan. jim buckley is referring to you as professor moynihan. pat said, the mudslinging has begun. [laughter] what you are in for tonight, however, it is a lecture on political philosophy. take

. >> philosophically speaking, you're happy when you do not even feel it. happiness is this right here, being with our friends, our sons. feeling good. that is happiness. >> we are always happy when we have worked. if you do not work, you do not make any money and then you have nothing to do. >> traveling around the world. these are moments of fun. >> happiness means everything to me. if you aren't happy, your heart starts to a can that will kill you. i let my anchor go because i do not want to be angry. -- i let my anger go. >> i think god that i'm alive. -- i thank god. you have to be grateful and happy that you are alive. >> that was pretty funny, going to the championships with the local band. [bagpipes] ♪ >> to us, happiness is peace on all over the world, but especially in the middle east. >> going to work every day, waking up to see another day. >> it is still 2012 in ireland, but they are set to take over the presidency of the european union. it changes every six months and it has been held by cyprus since july. ireland, since the bailout, they have

as we need to approach the issue philosophically. there is very little we can do except hopefully protect the interest that we currently have in the region. for the next 30 or 40 years, how you create genuine liberals who may someday run the country -- the growth in mexico. mexico was a backer, authoritarian place with a loser president -- backwards, authoritarian place with a loser president. where did they come from? the have a ph.d. from the university of chicago. that is how it happened. find those 10 people, educate them, maybe some good of good will come 20 years down the road. >> you mentioned the justice component of many of these islamist parties. this is a response today corruption of these u.s.- sponsored regimes. -- to the corruption of these u.s.-sponsored regimes. for the record, i am against corruption. >> it goes back to the point at bottom made in my remarks that islamists did not win, the non- islamists lost. they lose by screwing up the delivery of services, by being so corrupt, by being ossified. islamists are the

david hume who was the father of the philosopher of the enlightenment died in 1776. george washington crossing the delaware. there are a lot of things commanded such as george washington. i love writing books, teaching. hello during freedom fest. a great way to meet all these authors and see what's happening in the world. >> we have been talking with founder of freedom fest. book tv is currently on location, the making of modern economics. the lives and that he is of great thinkers. thank you for being on book tv. >> thank you. >> tell us what you think about our program in this weekend. you could tweeted this @booktv. common on a facebook wall or send us an e-mail. book tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> your watching book tv on c-span2. here's our prime-time lineup for tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern, hysteria and the creation of the universe. then at 815, the experiences as a christian living in israel. 930 from the national book festival, an interview on her book elizabeth the queen. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, which includes that's primetime pro

. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food.so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪ ♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thou

then you know where the writer is creating a philosophical system or is trying to make every lea clear moral standpoint basically recreating the bible. in the holy bible the tolkien was talking with for an exactly this way he was a devout catholic who would do all catholic writer so he put a lot of classic catholic views into his work so i'm trying to describe the real world and the best account. well how would you describe fantasy has it really replaced scientific science fiction may become if there were no science fiction yes that's true because. science was promising wonders it didn't happen and now people really want to write a good read a good story well or well written with. charismatic characters who would really entertain and provide a moral challenge to say so a moral challenge i mean that they would be hard moral choice for the character and for the reader so it's more entertaining it's there it's the thought science fiction now have lost this science part because if i would work on their classical normal it would be quite boring because we're facing severe limitation in spac

fullest so by the law not philosophically there is nothing wrong with what they did but philosophically of course there is you shouldn't be encouraging an alcoholic to drink you shouldn't be you know it's that kind of philosophy that's been lost in finance generally we've gone beyond this idea of well i should encourage an alcoholic to drink because now h.s.b.c. has admitted that they were in and financing terrorism full stop therefore they were involved in nine eleven full stop their bottom line longing for mexican drug cartels full stop but they don't go to jail for that because after all it was for fear of money not gold if they took their payment from the extortionist in the terrorist and gold then they would have been guilty of some crime but because they got money therefore they're innocent is that what we're saying. more or less it is it is it's a big it's a big problem i think yeah it's a big problem i would think because it leaves institutionalized legitimize in monitise terrorism as a mode of operetta business model you could argue you could argue that indeed you're not going

phillis by the law story not philosophically there is nothing wrong with what they did but philosophically of course there is you shouldn't be encouraging an alcoholic to drink you shouldn't be you know it's that kind of philosophy that's been lost in finance generally we've gone beyond this idea of well i should encourage an alcoholic to drink because now h.s.b.c. has admitted that they were in bed and financing terrorism full stop therefore they were involved in nine eleven full stop they're involved in money laundering for mexican drug cartels full stop but they don't go to jail for that because after all it was for fear of money not gold if they took their payment from the extortionist in the terrorist and gold then they would have been guilty of some crime but because they got. what are. you going to walk back to last name and. you can you can all you the anyone that's engaged. anyone that uses a new. currency is. the intent of its use and the intent of its use is not know who in the business be a nobleman. ok let me ask you about this idea of inflation because the government here in

that's a big philosophical difference. but otherwise there was a plan. reauthorizing the violence against women act, there's another one. obviously everyone wants to reauthorize it. they understand those protections are needed. because democrats were pushing to expand some of the proteks to homosexual couples, there's been hold up there again. almost a deal just not enough time and frankly with this environment not enough goodwill necessarily to get this deal done. there were things in the works. there was a lot of hope that some of these things would get done if fiscal cliff could be put off the table. it's not going to happen. >> when you talk about not enough goodwill, that's true when the cameras are on. when the cameras are off a lot of these people like each other, they're collegial, they're very much a family, at least in the senate, probably in the house, too. there's three people who are leaving so today being the final day, there are going to be a lot of people saying good-bye to dick lugar, kent conrad, and herb kohl. >> there is a little bit

next quote is from karl marx, who is a german philosopher.as tragedy, second as farce." that's so true. >> steve: true dat. >> jimmy: here's another one from marx. he said, "third is an origin story, fourth in 3d, fifth straight to dvd. then it gets a reboot with andrew garfield." [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> steve: really? >> jimmy: i don't know what he's talking about. it can't be. >> steve: i don't know. that doesn't seem like it would be -- >> jimmy: next quote is from president obama. he said, "i think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." i don't think republicans would agree with that but he said it. here's another quote from obama. he said, "i think when you spread nutella on buttered toast it makes it taste like dr. pepper." like a hazelnut thing? i've never done it. >> steve: i've never done it. >> jimmy: no, me either. >> steve: i like nutella. >> jimmy: here's a quote from albert camus, a famous french author. he said, "don't walk in front of me, i may not follow. don't walk behind me, i may not lead. walk b

you have to, you have to have a background and a desire to engage in a philosophic enterprise not in constructing a new constitution, but in interpreting the present one and filling in the gaps where there are gaps. i don't mean, i don't mean if the constitution doesn't mention something you make up something, but take the first amendment. congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. we know that they didn't mean no law abridging the freedom of sweep. that would mean you couldn't have a law against inciting mutiny in the navy. that would mean you couldn't have a law against people jumping up and down in a courtroom and screaming. we know that there were limits to the speech they would protect. but the language doesn't tell you what those limits are. you have then to go back to the history of the practice or the can customs of the times to find out what those limits are. >> host: the, i want to pick up on that, but also one other thing here. you talked, this seems to me to continue from bickell to some degree, that the institutions and traditions of the american republi

for which philosopher was it so that when the last man dies or remembers the last great war the next great war is inevitable that that when the generation there remember the great divide depression started to die out that the next depression became inevitable. well i think it became inevitable only sure in a sense because vigilance is the is the price of liberty and we stopped being vigilant and i think we stopped being vigilant as corporate influence took over the political process to an unprecedented extent we're seeing that now on both sides of the aisle of the republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate america democratic party with huge swaths of it are we are lazy about that too we let that happen and i think you know awareness action pushing back making it uncomfortable every single time especially the democrats try to push the corporate agenda because the republicans i don't think will will get anywhere with and getting the message out over and over again when you talk about cutting government budgets you're talking about cutting teachers and school principals

. >> overall, philosophically, how do you see the role of government, the role of congress, the role of the president in the economy? >> basically this book raises and answers the question. we need government to create a stable environment for businesses to function and create jobs. when government battles too much in the economy, its policies are driven by politics and markets are driven by individuals and the real world music people. that's the difference between what government does about markets do. you need government to protect us from fraud, from wrongdoers. there are wrongdoers the government can protect us from them. overly meddlesome government goes to fire and you end up suppressing enterprise and innovation and job creation. >> 2008 financial situation and the so-called bailout. are you supportive of that government intervention? >> release the question and answer of the book basically. you can see that as an emergency intervention. this government had done it back now, that would've been fine. unfortunately they stayed too long. the comparison they make is to katrina. th

there are different philosophers. i talked about my friends that have been killed and working with city high school kids and talked about your duty to their experiences the friends who had been killed, and it was a personal discussion that we never would have had if it weren't for the provocation and at the end of its that's why i never should have said this in the first place. free speech as a moral high ground. they tell you what to say so never see that. like a lot of private colleges it has pretty restrictive speech codes and i know you've talked a little bit about the whole guarantee of the free speech but there's still a lot fewer tools. it's a lot harder to make the case for free speech and private universities how would you recommend we go about that? >> i don't spend too much time on that because i write so much about this. i have some real religion but the distinction of private and public colleges but the answer this question a lot. the first amendment applies to the public colleges. it doesn't apply to the

commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former s

that he compartmentalize is to the extent what he can be this philosophical thinker and see slavery all the things mr. o'shaughnessy has shown us, the danger of freeing slaves? and that on the other hand, this other side of, the business side which i think as a surprise to me. i'm not a scholar or historian, but that is, this other part of jefferson that even he himself maybe was in denial about, and yet he was good at. >> well, i don't see him as compartmentalize. that was the formulation that joseph alice put forth, and i just don't buy it. i mean, it's based in large measure on things jefferson said about slavery. and many of these statements that he may, some of his most ringing anti-slavery statements we think were almost issued as press releases from the white house, or put on billboards, or put in newspapers. these were private responses that he wrote from roughly 7090 until his death. very progressives and abolitionists who came to them, people like william goals and kosciuszko and lafayette baking him to do something to end slavery. and he would put them off. he would say the t

we need to approach the issue with some sense philosophically. the reality is there's racial we can do except protect against the interest we currently have in the region. weekend for the next 30 or 40 years think about how you create can't trace of general liberals who may someday run the country. i grew up in mexico. very briefly. mexico was a horrible backward authoritarian place with his loser presidents, and all of a sudden you get guys like fox and calderÓn, and where did they come from? they have a ph.d from the university of chicago. that's how it happened. find those 10 people, educate them and maybe some good will come 20 years down the road. >> you mentioned the justice component of a lot of these islamist parties. there's an argument that can be made that this is a response to the corruption of these you sponsored regimes. i would say that in the case of gaza which you mentioned, rob, that was a very series component. any thoughts how to combat that or includes this in the right direction? >> for the record i'm against corruption. [la

some people think that he was an ancient philosopher, jewish philosopher.holars continue to think he was best understood as a kind of jewish apocalyptic prophet. >> but jesus the prophet was not alone in his search for souls to save. scholars tell us the landscape was teeming with jewish groups, each with their own take on god's word. one such sect, the essings, were apocalyptic jews who lived in the desert by the dead sea. when their writings were discovered in the caves of kumron in 1948, we suddenly gained startling new clues about jesus' own spiritual roots. >> we have from kumron just a small bit of a manuscript that shows us that there were other jews, just before the time of jesus, who were waiting for a messiah who would exert miraculous and healing power, and who would also have the power to raise the dead. and jesus embraces that messianic expectation. >> and it began with a baptism, as the gospels tell us, performed by the man who tradition and scholarship say was jesus' cousin and boyhood friend. john the baptist lived in the wilderness wearing

that there is room in academic study to consider some of the important social questions and the philosophical contest -- contacts when looking at consent and economic choice from the perspective of humanities and what does it mean for somebody to consent to an arrangement. for academic study, while it is interesting to talk about the definition of slavery, it may be more useful for us to drill down to consider some nuances. a second context in which the definition might be potentially important would-be legal proceedings. as a lawyer, i would say that having a definition is more important in that realm. when you go into the courtroom and you try to convince the defendants of a particular offense, or you need a definition, you can expect that whoever is on the other side of a legal proceeding will push back at any definition, will search for any loopholes that might come up with. the do you think that our current legal documents, whether it be treaties from the 1926 treaty, to the 1956 additional provisions that the international criminal court provided, there are contours' to the internationa

you need the historians and philosophers to look way over the cliff to the mountains and beyond. talking about creating incentives to do -- you have to have people that are imaginative who can look beyond the current crisis. that has been part of the american middle class, new ideas. >> i agree with that. i would like more of an emphasis on science and math. in terms of the k through 8th grade. >> absolutely. a young physicist learning how to do problem sets started going back to the questions of uncertainty and the relativity theory and became more philosophical. if you're just doing problem sets, you are not thinking about the deeper ideas or setting the framework for thinking will be on the cliff to the future. >> do you have a question? >> i fear that we have a burgeoning student loan problem in our country. it is the only form of consumer debt that has increased substantially. people don't have the jobs. look at it on an apples to apples basis. very high default rates. i worry about kids -- i study the equivalent of the social sciences at harvard. i worry about the kids that

. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food.ural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand

we really need to do the right hing with empirical data, not with fluff, and as one who is a philosopher and i go really deep into things and read stuff i will not tolerate fluff. i will expose it. i will shine light where there is darkness. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other members of the public would like to comment? seeing none. we will close public comment. and madam clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no mr. chr app

in the interest of time i'm leaving out inappropriate limericks about philosophers.y time i saw him lose his temper is when we were sharing a double room in the last year. some of the lessen lightened brethren decided to make a bunch of noise during finals week. when yelling at these guys didn't do the trick, chris burst out of bed, ran out onto the balcony, grabbed a water fire extinguisher and let them have it. he seemed much less angry when he came into the room and particularly pleased when the guys that he drenched came running up the stairs yelling my name. [ laughter] ambassador stevens did not correct the record. i feel this is a rare example of a failed diplomatic effort on his part. [ laughter] >> he did seem to sleep remarkably well after that, however. another topic a propos with chris is his relationship with material things. he didn't care about things, accept to the extend they were a means to an end. providing access to people, places, culture and activities he wanted to participate in. i wanted to mention a couple of examples from the uc berkeley arc

he is an astute philosopher.e is a native of illinois, a student of baseball, a lifelong cubs fan, and as such, he is a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. [laughter] [applause] despite their rudeness of the invitation, he is my friend. george well. -- will. [applause] >> jack's invitation is perfectly acceptable. my dear friend william f. buckley once called up his friend charleton heston, the actor, and said chuck, do you believe in free speech? he said, of course. he said good, you are about to give one. it is a delight to be back here. it is a delight to be back on campus. long ago and far away, i was a college professor. in 1976, two of my friends ran for the senate against each other in new york state. the night they were both nominated, jim buckley got up and said, i look forward to running against professor moynihan. jim buckley is referring to you as professor moynihan. pat said, the mudslinging has begun. what you are in for tonight, however, it is a lecture on political philosophy. take notes, th

host: stoically make a replica of a human rain on a computer, we make you go to have a new on philosophical questions such as consciousness. >> guest: i talk about consciousness and free will and identity in the book of the same fact philosophical questions from what some people say it's not scientific, it is not real. i wouldn't be so quick to dismiss on aim at the core of the concept of morality and systems based on consciousness and free will. but it gives us greater insight into everything come into what is important and how human beings work. it will help us become more intelligent. we extend our reach. we started with physical tools and an extended our reach mentally. we were literally expand our intelligence with these machines. the best way to do that is to understand how the human brain does it. then we can implement in a way that does not limitations of biology. the circuitry of the human brain transmits information using electrochemical signals come with sharply few hundred feet per second, a million times smaller than an electrical signal. the computations take place at about 10

i dedicated a couple weeks to build buckley's and i communism with a principal and philosophical position. he once told me late in his life that his most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, the book in which buckley and characteristically barely says or write anything in which he creates a literary and philosophical interview with whittaker chambers. in odyssey we see chambers again bear his soul. to young admirer, friend and colleague. i was struck, most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows, of so many of these pages. amen is trying to account to himself and two world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered, but also there is no going back, doing the right thing can still mean anything, not just for his own soul but his family, couny and generation. bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic emotional man, very much so. it is not surprising to me chambers's odyssey moves bill profoundly. as my students know, bill buckley had many influences but the common in his life that was chambers certainly ranks as the most unexp

christianity has a philosophical element but there is a difference between a philosophy and a religion for instance, let's look at this. a lot in common. loose fitting clothing, beards, sandals, teaching through parables, martyrdom. but here's where we find the distinction between philosophy and religion. after their martyrdom, one of them got better. i'll give you a hint. it's the one who ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father who will come again to judge the living and the dead. whose kingdom will have no end. anyone? it's jesus! we bestow one of them tax-exempt status. why isn't christianity a religion? >> christianity is not an organized religion. a church that can be imposed. christianity is a philosophy. you don't have to believe jesus is god in order to admire his view on life. >> jon: no. but you have to believe jesus is god to be a cristian. for instance, i like a lot of jesus' philosophy. love your neighbor. a little cheek turning. stone not casting. it's very nice. but while i can get an "a" in his philosophy class, i don't get to go to the after

one time in the 16th century there was a polish philosopher and he said this.he law in poland is like a spider's web. a big fly will get through but a small one will get stuck. i came to a conclusion that you have to find strength within yourself. >> and he would soon show us that strength was one thing he didn't lack. >> we were able to come back about a half an hour, 45 minutes later. and they opened up the security door and he is in there in sunglasses, a full like workout suit. he's got his water bottles all together. and the guy is -- is ripped. i mean, he is big. he's a big guy. and he makes it out, well, this is just a cell workout. this is nothing. this is all i can do right here. >> i was a little shocked by his workout outfit. again, i'm used to seeing guys in the little prison issued shorts. and he was decked out in this professional looking fitness gear. so i kind of made a joke with him. and i said you're going to get a lot of letters from female american television viewers. "lockup" viewers. which just delighted him. >> but he was clear about the